CESTA Digital Humanities Research Showcase 2022

Date
Fri May 27th 2022, 8:30am - 3:00pm
Location
CESTA (Wallenberg Hall, Bldg 160), Conference Room 433A.
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Every year, CESTA's Digital Humanities Graduate Fellowship supports graduate students and post-docs to produce original research using the tools and methods of the digital humanities. Join us to see the 2021-22 cohort of scholars present their research!

Program

8:30–9:00 AM Light Breakfast and Coffee
9:00–9:15 AM Introductory Remarks
9:15–10:30 AM Panel One: Our Digital Present: Tools, Big Data, and Algorithms
  Annie Lamar (Classics): "Reading, Fast and Slow: The Impact of Digital Reading Tools on Ancient Language Learning"
  Iris Zhang (Sociology): "Municipal Annexations and the Changing Color Line"
  Hank Gerba (Art History): "Between Publics and Populations: On Complexity Theory’s Algorithmic Logics"
10:30–10:45 AM Coffee Break
10:45–12:00 PM Panel Two: New Data-Driven Perspectives on the Distant Past
  Dewei Shen (East Asian Studies): "How to Escape from Empire: A Possible Digital Humanities Solution"
  Brandon Bark (Classics): "Networks of Transmission: Visualizing Latin Literary Fragments and the Later Sources who Preserved Them"
  James Parkhouse (English) and Poojit Hegde: "Raiding the Wordhoard: Statistical Analysis of Recurring Alliterative Collocations in Old Norse Eddic Poetry"
12:00–1:15 PM Lunch Break and Poster Session by CESTA Undergraduate Research Interns
1:15–2:45 PM Panel Three: Tracing Culture in Language, 1850 to Now
  Zuza Leniarska (English): "Return to Realism? Comparing 19th- and 21st-Century Novel Forms"
  Carmen Thong (English) and Katherine Wang: "Encoding the Postcolonial in Place"
  Valentina Ramia (Anthropology): "Fear in the Archive: A Digital Analysis of Ethnographic Concepts in Immigration Judges' Decisions"
  Andrew Nelson (East Asian Languages and Cultures), Victor Cheruiyot and Sandi Khine: "Imperial Vocabulary: Public Political Discourse of the Japanese Diaspora, 1895-1935"
2:45–3:00 PM Concluding Remarks
3:00 PM onward Happy hour at Treehouse, Tresidder Student Union